Each Handbook contains in-depth, high-level articles by preeminent scholars reviewing the key issues, analyzing points of contention, and outlining arguments for advancing the discussion.

Genuinely broad in scope, each handbook in this series provides a complete state-of-the-field overview of a major sub-discipline within linguistics.

A key publication in the field, Journal of Child Language publishes articles on all aspects of the scientific study of language behaviour in children, the principles which underlie it, and the theories which may account for it.

First Language is an international peer reviewed journal that publishes the highest quality original research in child language acquisition.